reflect on your life

Where are you right now?

Before thinking about where you want to go, notice where you already are.

• What feels good in your life right now?
• What feels heavier than it should?
• What are you rushing through?
• What have you been putting off or avoiding?
• What has been taking most of your attention lately?
• What do you wish you had more room for?

Don’t fix anything yet. Just notice.

What do you actually want?

• Not what you’re supposed to want.
• Not what looks successful from the outside.
• Not what would make everyone else happy.

What matters to you?

• What do you want more of in your life?
• What do you want less of?
• What makes you feel most like yourself?
• What are you doing because you genuinely want to — and what are you doing because you think you should?
• If nobody were judging your choices, what might you do differently?
• What have you known for a while but haven't quite admitted to yourself?

You don't need to have everything figured out.

Just tell yourself the truth.

What might your dog notice that you don’t?

Imagine your dog could follow you through an ordinary day and give you a little advice.

Not complicated advice.

Dog advice.

• Where would they tell you to slow down?
• What would they get excited about that you barely notice anymore?
• Who would they tell you to spend more time with?
• What would they tell you to stop worrying about?
• Where might they tell you to be a little braver?
• What would they tell you to let go of?
• When would they tell you to put the phone down and look around?
• What would they remind you is already pretty good?

Sometimes the things we need aren't complicated.

We just stopped noticing them.

Who are you underneath all the doing?

We spend a lot of life answering questions like:

• What do you do? 
• What have you accomplished? 
• What's next?

Dogs don't care about any of that.

They don't care about your title, your résumé, your house, your productivity, or whether you impressed everyone today.

So take those things away for a moment.

• Who are you when you're not accomplishing something?
• What qualities do you genuinely like about yourself?
• When do you feel most comfortable being completely yourself?
• Who gets the most real version of you?
• Where do you find yourself performing, shrinking, or trying to prove something?
• What would it look like to show up a little more honestly?

You don't need to become someone else.

Come back to who you already are.

That's enough for today.

You don't have to overhaul your life to experience it differently.

Sometimes you just need to notice where you are, remember what matters, and come back to the moment you're actually living.

Be here for your life.